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Joshua Z. Willey,
MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Dr. Joshua Willey is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and Assistant Attending Neurologist on the Stroke Service at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Willey received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1999, his medical degree from Columbia University in 2003. After Neurology Residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, he completed a two-year neuro-epidemiology and stroke fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical center, when he also earned an MS in epidemiology. He joined the faculty of Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2009.

Dr. Willey has an outpatient clinical practice in neurology with a focus on cerebrovascular diseases and stroke, and attends on the inpatient stroke service.

He is actively involved in teaching of non-medical students in the health sciences campus, medical students in the pre-clinical and clinical years, and neurology residents and fellows. Dr. Willey is the neurology residency associate program director.

Dr. Willey's research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and has focused on risk factors for clinical and subclinical cerebrovascular disease in the Northern Manhattan Study. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Heart Association, and is a Fellow of American Neurological Association.